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2025

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Rising Stars

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52
Citations
9762
World Ranking
272
National Ranking
89

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
58
Citations
11149
World Ranking
1359
National Ranking
122

Environmental Sciences

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60
Citations
12074
World Ranking
2951
National Ranking
297

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Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Gene

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Soil carbon, Carbon sequestration, Agroforestry, Agronomy and Afforestation. Lei Deng has researched Soil carbon in several fields, including Grassland and Land use, land-use change and forestry. His work is dedicated to discovering how Carbon sequestration, Shrubland are connected with Sink and Environmental protection and other disciplines.

The Agroforestry study which covers Land use that intersects with Evapotranspiration, Vegetation, Arid, Land restoration and Revegetation. His studies in Agronomy integrate themes in fields like Soil biodiversity, Soil organic matter, Soil horizon and Soil retrogression and degradation. His Afforestation study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, Reforestation, Carbon sink, Greenhouse gas and Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

His most cited work include:

  • Land-use conversion and changing soil carbon stocks in China's 'Grain-for-Green' Program: a synthesis. (313 citations)
  • Effects of the grain-for-green program on soil erosion in China (150 citations)
  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010. (122 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Agronomy, Soil carbon, Vegetation, Carbon sequestration and Grassland are his primary areas of study. Lei Deng combines subjects such as Soil water, Soil fertility, Ecosystem and Land use, land-use change and forestry with his study of Agronomy. His study in Soil carbon is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Agroforestry, Afforestation, Ecological succession, Topsoil and Soil horizon.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Restoration ecology, Land use, Water content, Arid and Terrestrial ecosystem in addition to Vegetation. His Carbon sequestration research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Forestry, Soil chemistry, Carbon sink and Greenhouse gas. His work carried out in the field of Grassland brings together such families of science as Shrub, Grazing and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (81.90%)
  • Soil carbon (76.72%)
  • Vegetation (52.59%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Soil carbon (76.72%)
  • Agronomy (81.90%)
  • Vegetation (52.59%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His main research concerns Soil carbon, Agronomy, Vegetation, Ecological succession and Ecology. His Soil carbon research includes elements of Sink, Ecosystem, Greenhouse gas, Environmental chemistry and Erosion. His work on Litter is typically connected to Climatic gradient as part of general Agronomy study, connecting several disciplines of science.

His research in Vegetation tackles topics such as Soil nutrients which are related to areas like Spatial heterogeneity, Plant diversity, Ecotone and Restoration ecology. His work deals with themes such as Total inorganic carbon, Temperate rainforest, Forest ecology and Subsoil, which intersect with Ecological succession. His research in the fields of Soil biology, Shrubland, Soil quality and Climax community overlaps with other disciplines such as Feedback effect.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • A Transcriptional Network Promotes Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Tomato Flesh. (25 citations)
  • Soil GHG fluxes are altered by N deposition: New data indicate lower N stimulation of the N 2 O flux and greater stimulation of the calculated C pools (17 citations)
  • Soil GHG fluxes are altered by N deposition: New data indicate lower N stimulation of the N 2 O flux and greater stimulation of the calculated C pools (17 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Gene

Soil carbon, Sink, Greenhouse gas, Environmental chemistry and Wetland are his primary areas of study. His Soil carbon study deals with the bigger picture of Ecology. His Sink research incorporates themes from Bamboo, Carbon dioxide and Carbon cycle, Ecosystem.

His research integrates issues of Terrestrial ecosystem and Carbon sink in his study of Wetland.

Best Publications

  • Land-use conversion and changing soil carbon stocks in China's 'Grain-for-Green' Program: a synthesis.

    Lei Deng;Guo-bin Liu;Guo-bin Liu;Zhou-ping Shangguan;Zhou-ping Shangguan

  • Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010.

    Fei Lu;Huifeng Hu;Wenjuan Sun;Jiaojun Zhu

  • MYC2 Orchestrates a Hierarchical Transcriptional Cascade That Regulates Jasmonate-Mediated Plant Immunity in Tomato.

    Minmin Du;Jiuhai Zhao;Jiuhai Zhao;David T.W. Tzeng;Yuanyuan Liu;Yuanyuan Liu

  • Drought effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in global natural ecosystems

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Changhui Peng;Dong-Gill Kim;Jiwei Li

  • Effects of the grain-for-green program on soil erosion in China

    Lei Deng;Zhou-ping Shangguan;Rui Li

  • Global patterns of the effects of land-use changes on soil carbon stocks

    Lei Deng;Guang-yu Zhu;Zhuang-sheng Tang;Zhou-ping Shangguan

  • Driving factors of ecosystem services and their spatiotemporal change assessment based on land use types in the Loess Plateau.

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  • MYC2 Regulates the Termination of Jasmonate Signaling via an Autoregulatory Negative Feedback Loop.

    Yuanyuan Liu;Yuanyuan Liu;Minmin Du;Lei Deng;Jiafang Shen

  • Afforestation Drives Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Changes in China

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Zhou‐ping Shangguan;Zhou‐ping Shangguan

  • Severe depletion of soil moisture following land-use changes for ecological restoration: Evidence from northern China

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Weiming Yan;Yongwang Zhang;Zhouping Shangguan;Zhouping Shangguan

  • A Transcriptional Network Promotes Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Tomato Flesh.

    Chuanlong Sun;Lei Deng;Minmin Du;Jiuhai Zhao

  • Past and future carbon sequestration benefits of China’s grain for green program

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Shuguang Liu;Dong Gill Kim;Changhui Peng;Changhui Peng

  • Effects of grazing exclusion on carbon sequestration in China's grassland.

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Zhou-Ping Shangguan;Gao-Lin Wu;Gao-Lin Wu;Xiao-Feng Chang

  • Mediator subunit MED25 links the jasmonate receptor to transcriptionally active chromatin.

    Chunpeng An;Lin Li;Qingzhe Zhai;Yanrong You

  • Soil organic carbon storage capacity positively related to forest succession on the Loess Plateau, China

    Lei Deng;Kai-Bo Wang;Mei-Ling Chen;Zhou-Ping Shangguan

  • Drivers of soil microbial metabolic limitation changes along a vegetation restoration gradient on the Loess Plateau, China

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Changhui Peng;Chunbo Huang;Kaibo Wang

  • Long-term fencing effects on plant diversity and soil properties in China

    Lei Deng;Zhinan Zhang;Zhouping Shangguan

  • Patterns of soil microbial nutrient limitations and their roles in the variation of soil organic carbon across a precipitation gradient in an arid and semi-arid region.

    Yongxing Cui;Linchuan Fang;Linchuan Fang;Lei Deng;Xiaobin Guo

  • "Grain for Green" driven land use change and carbon sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China.

    Lei Deng;Zhou-ping Shangguan;Sandra Sweeney

  • Soil GHG fluxes are altered by N deposition: New data indicate lower N stimulation of the N 2 O flux and greater stimulation of the calculated C pools

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Chunbo Huang;Chunbo Huang;Dong-Gill Kim;Zhouping Shangguan;Zhouping Shangguan

  • Effects of grassland afforestation on structure and function of soil bacterial and fungal communities.

    Kaibo Wang;Yongwang Zhang;Zhuangsheng Tang;Zhouping Shangguan

  • Soil organic carbon dynamics following natural vegetation restoration: Evidence from stable carbon isotopes (δ13C)

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Kaibo Wang;Zhuangsheng Tang;Zhouping Shangguan

  • Effects of age and land-use changes on soil carbon and nitrogen sequestrations following cropland abandonment on the Loess Plateau, China

    Lei Deng;Guo-liang Wang;Guo-bin Liu;Zhou-ping Shangguan

  • Soil aggregate stability and aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen in natural restoration grassland and Chinese red pine plantation on the Loess Plateau

    Guang-yu Zhu;Zhou-ping Shangguan;Zhou-ping Shangguan;Lei Deng;Lei Deng

  • Controls of soil and aggregate‐associated organic carbon variations following natural vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau in China

    Lei Deng;Lei Deng;Dong-Gill Kim;Changhui Peng;Zhouping Shangguan;Zhouping Shangguan

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhouping Shangguan
Zhouping Shangguan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Chuanyou Li
Chuanyou Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhi-Hua Shi
Zhi-Hua Shi Huazhong Agricultural University
Guobin Liu
Guobin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gao-Lin Wu
Gao-Lin Wu Lanzhou University
Xinhua He
Xinhua He University of Western Australia
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Wei Zhao
Wei Zhao Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Guo-Liang Wang
Guo-Liang Wang The Ohio State University

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